petawatt

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petawatt

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From peta- + watt.

noun petawatts

An SI unit of power equal to 10¹⁵ watts. Symbol: PW. An amount of power much larger than all the power generated by all power stations on Earth. (Consuming 1 petawatt during a duration of 1 hour would consume 1 petawatt-hour of energy.) Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt

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@misc{petawatt_2026,
  title = {petawatt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/petawatt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}